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Jay Electronica got himself into a little bit of trouble on Christmas Eve, thanks to a drunken Twitter rant. The almost-forgotten Roc Nation signee, whose debut album has been years in the making, dissed a variety of rappers during his booze-fueled tirade, including 50 Cent and Trinidad James...

Kevin Winter, Getty Images In good Chris Brown news, the troubled singer scored a No. 1 with his new album, Fortune, which moved 134,000 copies in its first week, according to SoundScan. Meanwhile, here's a photo of Young Jeezy in zebra print shorts...

Jay Electronica may be close to finishing his long-awaited Roc Nation debut LP, however, the New Orleans native is making a different type of headline today. The once homeless rapper now finds himself in the middle of a love scandal involving two British socialites...

Jay Electronica's label boss Jay-Z has promised that his protege's long-awaited Roc Nation debut Act II: Patents of Nobility (The Turn) is finally "really close" to seeing release. "I want people to be creative and not traditional, not just a single this time, this time this time," Jay-Z told MTV of his approach in cultivating the gifted, mercurial MC's first official full-le

Somewhere in London, Kanye West and a crack team of singers and rappers are readying the album we're all going to spend the spring talking about. That's the takeaway following recent tweets from British songstress Marsha Ambrosius and rhymer Pusha T, two of the artists helping Yeezy finish his eagerly awaited, ridiculously star-studded G...

The first voice heard on 'Call of Duty: MW3,' the new single by hip-hop curio Jay Electronica, belongs to Winston Churchill. It's a sample from a 1940 radio broadcast in which the British prime minister urges his countrymen to, "Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict...

The official lineup for the 2011 Afro Punk has Festival been announced, with Cee Lo Green, Janelle Monae and Jay Electronica scheduled to rock the Brooklyn show in August. The 7th annual festival will be held at the Commodore Barry Park in New York City's Fort Greene neighborhood on August 27 and 28...

Fresh on the heels of announcing the tile of his new album, 'I'm Gay,' rapper Lil B has now revealed that he is working on an EP with Roc Nation signee Jay Electronica. The news is typical of Lil B, who always seems close to pulling off some bizarre feat, and extremely surprising of Jay-Z-affiliate Jay Electronica, one of hip-hop's most respected new artists, though he has released music at a snai

Jay Electronica is clearly working on his own schedule. The highly acclaimed, New Orleans bred lyricist signed to Jay-Z's Roc Nation imprint late last year but the major co-sign has done little to increase the enigmatic MC's musical output...

In this week's round-up of the Top Five Tweets of the Week, Compton rapper Game tweets right before before being detained by Canadian officials and Nick Cannon gives out his (and Mariah Carey's) home phone number via his radio show. Snoop Dogg has fun on 4/20 all while Diddy shows excitement about his new single...